Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
floating, float, rise to surface
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
776 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 浮沈 【フチン】 floating and sinking, rise and fall, ebb and flow, ups and downs
  • 浮上 【フジョウ】 surfacing, rising to the surface, emerging, leaping into prominence, rising (of rank)
  • 軽浮 【ケイフ】 fickle, frivolous

Kun reading compounds

  • 浮く 【うく】 to float, to become merry, to be cheerful, to become loose, to become unsteady, to feel out of it, to be cut off (e.g. from those around you), to feel out of place, to be frivolous, to be uncertain, to have (time, money, etc.) left over, to be saved (e.g. money), to have no basis, to be unreliable
  • 浮かれる 【うかれる】 to make merry, to be festive
  • 浮かぶ 【うかぶ】 to float, to be suspended, to rise to the surface, to appear, to emerge, to show up, to loom (up), to come to mind, to have inspiration
  • 浮かぶ瀬 【うかぶせ】 chance, opportunity, lucky break
  • 浮かべる 【うかべる】 to float, to set afloat, to launch, to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.), to recall, to call to mind, to imagine, to think of

Readings

Japanese names:
うき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu2
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • flotar
  • venir a la memoria
  • salir a la superficie

Portuguese

  • boiando
  • bóia
  • subir para superfície

French

  • flotter
  • faire surface
  • venir à l'esprit
  • avoir l'air (joyeux, triste)
1752 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1047 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2575 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
991 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
684 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1069 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
938 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
968 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
820 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1197 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
522 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
319 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
393 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
738 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17487X Morohashi
435 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3159 New Nelson (John Haig)
730 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
787 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1359 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
347 2001 Kanji
3a6.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
1-3-6 SKIP code
3214.7 Four corner code
1-41-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d6e Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
icicle, ice, hail, freeze, congeal
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1450 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 氷柱 【ツララ】 icicle, ice pillar (for cooling a room), ice
  • 氷山 【ヒョウザン】 iceberg
  • 海氷 【カイヒョウ】 sea ice
  • 解氷 【カイヒョウ】 a thaw

Kun reading compounds

  • 氷 【こおり】 ice, shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
  • 氷水 【こおりみず】 ice water, shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
  • 人造氷 【じんぞうこおり】 artificial ice
  • 雪氷 【せっぴょう】 snow and ice, snow ice, frozen snow
  • 氷 【ひ】 ice, hail
  • 氷柱 【つらら】 icicle, ice pillar (for cooling a room), ice
  • 薄ら氷 【うすらひ】 thin ice
  • 凍る 【こおる】 to freeze, to become frozen, to freeze over

Readings

Japanese names:
すい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bing1
Korean:
bing

Spanish

  • hielo
  • congelado

Portuguese

  • estalactite
  • gelo
  • granizo
  • geada
  • congela

French

  • glace
  • glaçon
  • grêle
  • geler
  • congeler
498 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
401 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
378 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1222 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
131 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
820 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
662 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
140 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1206 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1269 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1095 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1153 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
43 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
24 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
25 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
133 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17087 Morohashi
39 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3032 New Nelson (John Haig)
131 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
138 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
259 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1142 2001 Kanji
3a1.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-3 SKIP code
4-5-3 SKIP code
3223.0 Four corner code
1-41-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c37 Unicode hex code